The Boston Globe history

In August 1873, Jordan hired General Charles H. Taylor as temporary business manager to turn around financial difficulties.

20, 1874 edition explains why: Sunday services are on the last page, not the first.

Originally a morning daily paper, the Globe began Sunday publication in 1877.

The first university course in journalism was given at the University of Missouri (Columbia) in 1879–84.

An organization of journalists began as early as 1883, with the foundation of England’s chartered Institute of Journalists.

But it began to grow under publisher Charles Taylor and, by 1886, it had the largest circulation of any paper in the country outside New York.

In 1912 Columbia University in New York City established the first graduate program in journalism, endowed by a grant from the New York City editor and publisher Joseph Pulitzer.

The Globe moved to its current home in the Dorchester section of Boston in 1958 after 87 years on Washington Street's "Newspaper Row" - so named because the street was the address of many of Boston's newspapers.

In 1967, the former Globe building on Washington Street, was demolished.

The Globe remained a private company until 1973, when it went public as part of the newly formed Affiliated Publications.

The Globe won another Pulitzer in 1975 for its coverage of the Boston school busing crisis, and has incurred 26 Pulitzers over the last fifty-two years for photography, commentary, and coverage of local, national, and international news stories.

When Matthew Storin came to the editor’s position in 1993, he sought to make the Globe less liberal, or at least less predictably so.

Boston.com was launched in 1995 and is now is one of the country's strongest regional websites.

But in 1998, Storin accepted the resignations of two star columnists who had fabricated quotes and characters.

According to a 1999 poll of editors by the Columbia Journalism Review , the Globe was (tied for) the sixth best paper in the country.

In the first half of 2001, amid a slowing economy, those numbers had declined to 467,217 and 710,256.

Martin, Douglas. “Thomas Winship, Ex-Editor of Boston Globe, Dies at 81,” New York Times, March 15, 2002. http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/15/us/thomas-winship-ex-editor-of-boston-globe-dies-at-81.html

As the Globe faced declining revenue, the Times in 2009 threatened to shut it down but relented after the unions agreed to wage and benefit cuts.

In February 2013, Red Sox owner John Henry assumed ownership, marking a new chapter.

John Henry, Publisher 2014 to present